Pamela Tiffin
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PAMELA TIFFIN
Female
67 years old
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 9/13/2007
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Body type: | 5' 7" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate |
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Pamela Tiffin, was one of the most promising young actresses in the early 1960s, who abandoned her career after ten years. Always an attractive screen presence, Pamela Tiffin was an extremely beautiful young woman, with a slim figure and shapely legs whose photographs appeared constantly in magazines and newspapers until 1967.
She was born as Pamela Wonso, the daughter of an architect, in October 1942 in Oklahoma City. Pamela grew up in Chicago and became a model while still in her teens. To further her career she moved to New York where she achieved considerable success.
When visiting California, Pamela met producer Hal Wallis who gave her a role in "Summer And Smoke", based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Despite having no acting experience, Pamela received good notices. She was immediately rewarded with a key role opposite James Cagney in "One, Two, Three", a Billy Wilder movie. Again her performance was admired, and Billy Wilder spoke highly of Pamela to journalists.
20th Century Fox signed Pamela to a contact and cast her in the re-make of "State Fair",opposite Bobby Darin.
After playing a virtuous innocent in "Come Fly With Me", Pamela was given similar parts in her next three movies. In "The Lively Set" Pamela played the loyal, supportive girlfriend of motor designer James Darren. James Darren again pursued her in "For Those Who Think Young", an attempt to cash in on the 'beach' movies craze.
Fox then cast her in "The Pleasure Seekers", a re-make of "Three Coins In The Fountain", transplanted to Madrid. Director Jean Negulesco, a legendary ladies man, ensured that Pamela was shown to advantage. Again she played a virginal innocent, fooled by the sales pitch of a rich Spanish playboy, superbly acted by Anthony Franciosa.
During this period, photographs of Pamela appeared in publications all over the world. Pamela has since said that she had no-one to guide her career, but clearly someone at this stage was supplying the world's press with her pictures.
In 1965 John Sturges, a brilliant action director, had the eccentric notion that he could direct a comedy despite never having shown lightness of touch in previous movies. Sturges cast Pamela in "The Hallelujah Trail", a long and unfunny film which was her first real failure.
The following year, Pamela won a small but important part in "Harper" (a.k.a "The Moving Target"). Playing a rich man's daughter adored by a man "old enough to be her grandfather" (Arthur Hill) while in turn nursing an unrequited love for her chauffeur (Robert Wagner), Pamela gained more personal publicity than the other members of the stellar cast. Her dancing in a bikini on a diving board remains one of the most memorable moments in a slick but empty movie.
At this point Pamela seemed poised to make the big breakthrough. Instead she went to Italy, originally to make a film, but later to get away from an unhappy marriage. While the move may have helped her private life, Pamela's Hollywood career came to a dead stop. None of the films Pamela made in Italy has been given a general release in English speaking countries.
More damagingly, while in Italy Pamela was tricked into allowing some indiscreet test photographs to be taken of her which were then sold to "Playboy" magazine without Pamela's knowledge or consent. Being test photographs of low quality, both technically and artistically, they are the most unflattering pictures of a movie star ever to appear in "Playboy", and probably reduced rather than increased interest in Pamela Tiffin.
Pamela continued to make films in Italy until 1974, when she married again and retired to bring up her two daughters.
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